SAVING FACE
said a New York newspaper when the Metropolitan opened its American Wing in 1924. This spring, a new, grander American Wing once again displays the collection that Lewis Mumford found “not merely an exhibition of art,” but “a pageant of American history.”
A major new exhibition celebrates the bright, idiosyncratic paintings of America’s folk artists
A splendid gathering of American folk art—half a century before its time
GOOD READING
A West Point Gallery
A photographic record of the boom years in the granite quarries of Barre, Vermont
A ponderous memorial to a people who refused to vanish
A remarkable collection of daguerreotypes by the St. Louis photographer Thomas Easterly illuminates the zest and chaos of city life in the Age of Expansion
A. B. Frost faithfully recorded the woodland pursuits of himself and his affluent friends
A British Officer Portrays Colonial America
Eleventh in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE